( 400 ) 



Underside wliitish, tinged and striated with oclireoiis grey, without markings. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen in ? whitish, in cj greyer, spotted with dark grey ; 

 palpi externally, a bar across middle of face, and the basal segment of abdomen 

 darker ; tnfts of <? abdomen ochreous. 



Expanse of wings : 30 mm. 



1 <?, 1 ?. 



11 0. Paralcis pallidistriga spec. nov. 



Forewiny : bright ochraceons, the gronnd-colour almost wliolly obscnred by 

 deep purplish grey suffusion ; the specklings and markings black ; costa marked 

 with close black striae and black spots at the origin of the lines ; a short black 

 mark close to base ; inner line at one-fourth, rectangnlarly bent on subcostal, then 

 vertical, twice curved, jireceded by a similar but more diffuse shade; outer line 

 dentate and sinuate at three-fifths ; median line strongly outeurved towards outer 

 line, and often united with it in a black blotch below middle, touching on the 

 outside a large velvety black cell-spot, the space beyond it fnlvous or ochreous, 

 sometimes bright ochreous ; a broad oblique band of ground-colour from apex to 

 inner margin before anal angle, preceded on costa by a black blotch and followed 

 below by obscure black contiguous lunules edged by the submarginal wavy line, 

 which is sometimes ochraceons ; marginal black spots; fringe, like the marginal 

 area, purplish grey. 



nbulwing : tinged with brownish or reddish ; of the three lines the first is 

 straight, distinct ; the median dift'nse, slightly sinuous, touching a pale-centred 

 dark-edged cell-spot; the third marked by vein-spots; the rest as in forewing ; 

 inner margin and fringe ochreous. 



Underside dull smoky grey, with faint indications of the paler and darker areas. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen dark purplish grey, the abdomen becoming 

 cinereous beyond middle ; legs and abdomen beneath like underside of wings. 



Expanse of wings : 42 mm. 



21 t?(J. 



llCi. Paralcis umbrilinea spec. nov. 



Forewing : olive-drab, darker speckled, in the ? with the underlying ground- 

 colour whitish ; the lines black, oblirpie, the shades also oblique, dark fuscous ; first 

 line from one-third of costa, projecting in cell, then obliquely curving inward to near 

 base of inner margin, preceded by a broad dark grey cloud ; outer line from two- 

 thirds of costa irregularly oblique to middle of inner margin, dentate-lannlate, both 

 teeth and lunules small ; median line from a dark costal spot curved and obscure 

 below costa, becoming plainer below middle, where it is followed by a fnscous 

 shade ; outer line followed by a broader, more developed dark shade, parallel with it, 

 and with dentate edges ; submarginal line pale, somewliat interrupted, preceded by 

 dark lunules between veins 4 and and followed by an oblique dark streak above 6 ; 

 cell-spot indistinctly annular ; a slight longitudinal streak of dark scales from 

 below it to the submarginal line ; lilack marginal spots between veins united by a 

 tine black festooned line; fringe with a dark middle line. 



Ilindiciiiy : similar, without basal line and shade ; submarginal line and shade 

 uninterrupted. 



Underside of S paler, with all the nuirkings as above, but duller ; of ¥ quite 

 different: whitish witli a faint olive tinge and spec^kled with dark; the lines fine 

 and threadlike, very faint ; a large round black cell-sjwt in forewing and an oval 



